Our Story
A.C.T. Wellbeing was formed alongside our founder site ACTSELFDEFENCE.COM
Coming from services and sporting backgrounds we wanted to combine our love for fitness, health & wellbeing with giving something back to the community by supporting people through the struggles life can throw at us. Between us we are no strangers to tough times and ACT allows us to share our experiences and knowledge within the community.
For us ACT is more than just a business. Its a chance to create something much bigger.
Meet the team
Mike Emery
Mike is a former Royal Marine Commando and police officer and has a passion for health & fitness.
In recent years Mike has been teaching self defence and personal safety tactics within the police.
Mike has been running outdoor fitness classes and bootcamps for many years. He has supported many people in reaching their goals and improving wellbeing, health & fitness.
Mike has combined his experience within the services and love for health & fitness to support many people in their applications into the services.
Mike heads up the wellbeing side of ACT
Mike Lynch
Mike served as a frontline Police Officer for over twenty years, and has been a National Trainer in Public Order. He also taught personal safety to Police in the UK.
Outside of his career in law enforcement, Mike has a plethora of experience with a number of martial arts. This experience has translated to success in international tournaments.
Most notably, Mike has won first places in the World Open Karate Championships in Italy, the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu English and European Championships, and the 2017 (LA) and 2019 (China) World Police & Fire Games in Grappling and Karate.
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Tom Watson
Tom is a former mixed martial arts competitor, whose career began in 2006. He is the former BAMMA Middleweight Champion, the UCMMA Middleweight Champion, and has competed in the UFC, Cage Rage, and MFC promotions. In 2013, he was ranked inside the world's top 20 fighters for his division.
Tom has an extensive boxing background, winning three ABA Southern Counties Championships as well as becoming a Full Contact Unlicensed Boxing Champion. In 2005, he was ranked the 3rd Amateur boxer in Britain.
He transitioned into Muay Thai and Kickboxing, amassing a record of 11-0 (8 KO's). Once moving into MMA, Tom spent most of his career training under two coaches: Firas Zahabi and Greg Jackson (both multiple-time winners of the world's best MMA Coach award). Further to this, he moved to study in California and Miami in the sport of collegiate wrestling
Louis Horne
Louis served in the British Army where he was a lightweight boxing champion and represented the Army in football. Louis went on to work as a dog handler with the MOD.
Louis has a love for fitness and has completed 3 iron mans and multiple marathons.
Louis has been working with the police since 2002 and as a self defence trainer since 2018.
Louis represented the UK at the world police and fire games in Ju-Jitsu.
He is a qualified fitness instructor, boxing coach and chairman of Hampshire Police boxing.
